Were they trying to prove President Trump right about “fake news”? Several top media outlets came out looking very fishy after a rush to embarrass him.

In Japan for his Asia tour, Trump on Sunday did a photo op feeding some koi with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The two men spooned out some food, then Abe dumped the rest of his small box into the lake, and Trump followed suit.

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But a UK paper, the Guardian, ran an online account that played to the Ugly American stereotype, suggesting Trump had just bungled the ceremony, under the headline “Trump dump: president throws entire box of fish food into precious koi carp pond,” with the subhead “While his host, Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe, spoons small amounts of feed, the US leader gives the fish a large feast.”